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HAROLD E. STEARNS. 
The interchange of visits at medical society meetings between 
veterinarian and physician is a practice which should be more 
generally followed. The veterinarian by attendance and partici¬ 
pation at the meetings of associations for the control of tubercu¬ 
losis, at city milk committees and kindred bodies, will learn much 
of value to him in the performance of ‘his duties as a public 
health officer and practitioner, and the leading physicians and 
sanitarians of whom these societies are usually composed, will be 
favorably impressed by the interest shown in sanitary medicine 
by the veterinary profession. For the same reasons, the reading 
of papers by physioians upon subjects of common interest at vet¬ 
erinary society meetings is greatly to be desired. The mingling 
<of the two professions in a field of common endeavor will do a 
great deal to wipe out the prejudice of the medical profession 
.against the veterinary profession by giving its members opportu¬ 
nity to judge by personal contact and observation of the class of 
-men who are striving for the advancement of their profession 
and of their fitness to take a prominent part as co-workers in 
sanitary reforms. The good that the veterinarian can accom¬ 
plish. especially in sanitary matters, depends greatly upon the de¬ 
gree of confidence reposed in him by the public, and this is meas¬ 
ured bv his ability and honesty. Every act of the individual, be it 
honorable or otherwise, efficient or inefficient, redounds to the 
credit or discredit of the profession at large, strengthening or 
impairing that confidence. It is, therefore, the duty of every vet¬ 
erinarian, putting all personal considerations aside, to refrain 
from any act which would tend to lower the standard of the pro¬ 
fession or to impair the growing confidence in it, and to keep 
abreast of the advances in medicine and sanitary science, to the 
end that his profession may attain that high place of honor among 
the learned professions to which its legitimate functions entitle it. 
Opening for First-Class Veterinarian: Welch, W. Va., 
wants to get a first-class veterinarian to locate there. Address I. 
J. Rhodes, Cashier, McDowell County National Bank, Welch, 
W. Va. 
